Opinion: If you think Gavin Newsom has a political future, just ask these folks fleeing California
California’s state and local tax burden is the fifth highest in the nation, consuming 13.5 percent of the state’s economic output—all those regulators and government employees need to be paid, after all. As a share of the state economy, California government takes almost 21 percent more than the national average and about 60% than does Texas—the state to which a plurality of the California exodus migrates to.
And, due in part to California’s heavy regulatory burden, residents pay the third-highest cost of living in the nation, after Hawaii and Massachusetts.
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